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A Design for Dying (1961)
- Director
- YOSHIMURA Kozaburo
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, WAKAO Ayako, KANO Junko
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into pictur...
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Last-Ditch Glory (1961)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, FUJIMAKI Jun
This is a dynamic story of five young soldiers from diverse walks of life who are thrown together in the final stages of the lmphal Operation in Burma. It is the vivid account of the fears, rivalries, and hates of ordinary men whose love of self is f...
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All for Love (1961)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, WAKAO Ayako, NAKAMURA Tamao
Yonosuke is the son of a wealthy Kyoto merchant whose only thought is how to increase his already large fortune. But the son secretly helps himself to his father's money to spend on women. Yonosuke considers women sublime, and believes that all shou...
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Adorable Schemers (1961)
- Director
- KIMURA Keigo
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Tamao, KITABAYASHI Tanie, SAKURA Mutsuko
A Girl Named Kinue Kinue works at the lsogaki Massage Service Center at a hot-spring resort not far from Tokyo where, with a number of other girls she goes to the various hotels to massage their guests. Kinue's secret is her love for her employer's...
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Nocturne of a Woman (1961)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Fujiko, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, MORI Masayuki
By the time the busy and bustling streets of Tokyo are wrapped in the glitter of neon signs, thousands of young women start powdering their faces ... to prepare for the relentless competition of the night. After her father's death, Toko becomes a gei...
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Les Mesdemoiselles (1961)
- Director
- YUGE Taro
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, NOZOE Hitomi
A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the bold spirited love makers and begin to take a liking to them is the theme of the picture. The fol...
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Fantastico (1961)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, KYO Machiko, KOBAYASHI Katsuhiko
Omon is the successful proprietress of a weaving shop, but at the same time she is the boss of 3,000 tough gamblers. She is also an accomplished swordswoman and at the same time a real beauty. One day she decides to get married to someone who will be...
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So Like the Flowers (1960)
- Director
- MIZUHO Shunkai
- Cast
- WAKAO Ayako, NEGAMI Jun, MARUYAMA Osamu
Kuniko is like a fresh flower and has been discovered by a TV director who has asked her to appear in commercials. Her family consists of herself, her parents and an elder brother who has returned after many years in POW camp. Yoko, her friend, has l...
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Scorching Sand (1960)
- Director
- MIZUHO Shunkai
- Cast
- MITAMURA Hajime, FUJIMAKI Jun, ISHII Ryuichi
The main streets of Tokyo are crowded with zigzagging leftist demonstrators shouting "Resistance to Rearmament," "Down with the Government" etc. One night, four young men, total strangers to each other, and living an insecure adolescence, like the ...
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The Ginza Three Boys (1961)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- NAKAMURA Ganjiro, MIMASU Aiko, KAWASAKI Keizo
This is the story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza, the busiest street in Tokyo. lchiro, the eldest, is a former title holder of the amateur bantam weight wrestling championship. Yuji, the second son, is a fine American football play...
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The Priest and the Beauty (1960)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, WAKAO Ayako, URAJI Yoko
Kiyohime is the only daughter of the headman of the village of Manago who whilst out hunting accidentally shoots Anchin, a young priest, who with his colleague, Dokaku, on the way to the famous Dojoii Temple to practice Buddhist meditation. Terrified...
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Patterns of Love (1960)
- Director
- MISUMI Kenji
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Fujiko, KANO Junko, NOZOE Hitomi
This is an omnibus picture consisting of three stories. Tosaku Yakata is a well-known college professor who writes under the name of Toku Ogata. One day, in Asakusa, the amusement center of Tokyo, he sees a beautiful girl dressed in a lavender and ...
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The Last Betrayal (1960)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, SUGAWARA Kenji
It is past midnight when Tsumura, a gang boss scurries to the rear entrance of the Bar Modonne, pushes open the door, and enters. A light is snapped on to reveal Chizu a beautiful woman and his mistress. He loves her deeply but, as they go upstairs t...
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Sa Poule (1949)
- Director
- KIMURA Keigo
- Cast
- UNO Jukichi, KYO Machiko, MORI Masayuki
Joji, is known as the perfect gentleman and the Saint and thought too fastidious to show interest in women. But Joji has his secret and when he is freed from work goes home ... to Naomi and love. Naomi had been a barmaid, only 16 years old, when he ...
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The Ogre in Mt. Oe (1960)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, ICHIKAWA Raizo, KATSU Shintaro
At the beginning of the eleventh century when the Fujiwaras held the reigns of power, Kyoto, then capital of Japan was infested with bandits and mysterious apparitions. Michinaga Fujiwara, the prime minister, is haunted by monsters in the form of a ...
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Bonchi (1960)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kon
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, WAKAO Ayako, NAKAMURA Tamao
In 1926 Kikuji was a real "Bonchi", the son of a great merchant family of the Osaka Senba District. The house is ruled by the grandmother, a stern matriarch who, with her daughter Sei, wants to see young Kikuji married well. What they particularly wa...
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The Woman’s Testament (1960)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo, ICHIKAWA Kon, YOSHIMURA Kozaburo
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, NAKAMURA Ganjiro, KANO Junko
"Jokyo" is a three-part omnibus picture, and Daiei's three best directors, and practically all of its stars, have combined their talents to create three stories in which various aspects of women are shown and commented upon. Director Yasuzo Masumura...
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Kamikaze (1960)
- Director
- INOUE Yoshio
- Cast
- HONGO Kojiro, TAKIHANA Hisako, NOZOE Hitomi
By 1944 the tide of war had turned against Japan and Akira Nozawa, lieutenant, junior grade, is a student-soldier. On one of his rare days of leave from the Yokosuka Air Base, Akira visits his Alma Mater to read in the school library. He asks the li...
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Enchanted Princess (1959)
- Director
- KIMURA Keigo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, WAKAO Ayako, KATSU Shintaro
Once in the Land of Badgers, there lived an old badger named Doroemon who had a lovely daughter named Okuro, a meek and obedient girl who always went to buy sake' for him. Now, near the forest where Doroemon and Okuro lived was a palace in which liv...
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Samurai Vendetta (1959)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, KATSU Shintaro, MAKI Chitose
Receiving an urgent letter from his uncle, Yasubei Nakayama, an accomplished fencer of the ltto school, hurries to assist him in a duel with the Murakami Brothers, his rivals in swordship. On his way, Yasubei almost collides with a young rider, evide...
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A Gambler as I Am (1959)
- Director
- WATANABE Kunio
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, HONGO Kojiro, KOBAYASHI Katsuhiko
In 1905, a few days before the fall of Mukden the citizens of Tokyo are surprised at the murder of a member of parliament, Kentaro Akashi, at the home of his young mistress. Naojiro, a spirited young man who used to be a house boy at the Akashi's vo...
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Etajima, the Naval Academy (1959)
- Director
- MURAYAMA Mitsuo
- Cast
- KOBAYASHI Katsuhiko, NANBU Shozo, MOMOYAMA Taro
The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbea...
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Odd Obsession (1959)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kon
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, KANO Junko, NAKADAI Tatsuya
Mr. Kenmochi, in his early sixties, is enjoying an obviously happy life in his Kyoto home. A man of artistic temperament, he is not merely an art-critic and an antiquarian, but also a connoisseur of beautiful things and a dilettante. He complains of...
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The Lord and the Gambler (1959)
- Director
- TANAKA Tokuzo
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, HONGO Kojiro, AWAJI Keiko
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brother's castle, when the ruler of the Takatori Clan suddenly dies leaving no heir and despite the protes...
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Beauty the Enemy (1959)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- SUGIMURA Haruko, YAMAMOTO Fujiko, WAKAO Ayako
Fusa Yoshino's only ambition in life is to care for her ancestral estate on the outskirts of Tokyo. By her first husband she has a lovely daughter name Kikue, while from her deceased second husband she has another daughter, named Keiko, who is just a...
